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Artist 宮原千恵 Miyahara Chie

宮原千恵
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Chie Miyahara

What made you start painting?

When I was in high school, I visited a certain facility for the elderly. I can't forget the scene I saw there. As if to kill time or work, the elderly were coloring the characters. Why something like a toddler? I wish I could do something that would make me respect people more. I wondered. When I was vaguely thinking about such things, there was an event that made me realize the joy of painting. I'm not good at organizing what I want to convey and conveying it to people in an easy-to-understand manner. I felt that it was difficult to live there. I always move with momentum and impulse, and I don't convey it well, or I blur what I want to convey. When I was a high school student and just an adolescent, my art club teacher told me that painting can be a way to organize the difficulty of living.

Drawing what you have can heal you and organize your thoughts. I can now express what I want to convey through pictures. I also had the goal of becoming a person who can convey the joy of expressing oneself through painting, just like the teacher. But I wasn't originally interested in painting, and the reason I joined the art club was when the student guidance teacher found out about my part-time job and asked me to suspend school or join the art club (laughs).

"Scenery with friends" Written by: Chie Miyahara

What path did you take after that, and how did you start publishing your work?

I went to an art junior college to become a person who could convey the joy of painting, and then went on to the welfare world, which I was originally interested in. While working in welfare, I thought that drawing would be an opportunity to learn about the true nature of the difficulty of living, so I continued to live as a volunteer painting instructor. Currently, we are holding painting classes to create an environment where children and people with disabilities can engage in creative activities with peace of mind.
While teaching people to draw, I continued to draw myself. I only drew pictures that expressed the difficulties of life, questions, and muddy feelings I felt in my daily life, so I was very reluctant to let someone see my work. But I didn't think it was convincing to teach people to draw even though they hadn't published their work.

Around that time, I had the opportunity to exhibit my paintings. It was a picture I was drawing to organize my feelings, so I didn't draw it with the intention of being seen by others. When I had the opportunity to exhibit, I began to think about what I wanted to convey. I think the picture has changed little by little since then.

How has the way you draw and express yourself changed since you started publishing your work?

Instead of drawing the confusion within myself while being confused, I was able to draw while sublimating what I was confused about. The resulting work is "Tree Soul: Sublimating Thoughts". This work is based on a tree. Trees are kind and I think it's amazing that they continue to exist in the place. I grew up surrounded by trees, so it's easier to talk to trees than to talk to people because they remain as memories (laughs).

When you touch a tree, you feel excited, sad, warm, and nostalgic. Various feelings arise, and memories, thoughts, and the self you want to be come to mind as something inside you. I think that's what makes me myself. It's nice to be able to capture colors as they see them, but I want to express them by connecting them to what is inside me.

"Tree Soul - Sublimating Thoughts" Written by: Chie Miyahara

Please tell us what you want to achieve through painting and what you noticed while teaching painting.

In the past, I used to deny myself that I was having difficulty living and being confused. But there were people who looked at the pictures I drew while confused and said that I wasn't the only one. Confused, lost. And get back on your feet. And so on. Now I feel that it is okay to be confused, so I painted a work called "The Gap between Ideal and Confusion".

Instead of falling together, I began to want to share painful emotions and turn it into a good cycle. It is difficult to face each and every one of those who are struggling like me, but I think that painting may be able to help many people. A tool that allows you to communicate without words. I would be happy if my drawings could be related to someone's life in that way.
What I realized while teaching painting is that everyone has a wonderful soul. Instead of imposing your own ideas, you can acknowledge each other's differences and get to know each other in this way. I think that is "peace". I noticed this when I saw the stripper. I was very impressed by the fact that he was expressing it with his body. It was like a god. "Peace" may seem like a big deal, but I think that peace is itself "peace" that everyone can express freely, and I think it is very important.

"Between confusion and ideals" Written by: Chie Miyahara

Please tell us about your future prospects.

Looking back on my life so far, I have always had someone help me. The art club teachers when I was in high school, the people who sympathized with me when I saw the paintings, and everyone who went to the painting class. I am who I am today thanks to the support of so many people. That's why I also have a strong desire to give back to society.

So that as many people as possible can face themselves and find the strength to live through painting. And I want to expand the environment where everyone can express themselves freely.
I hope to create a cycle of smiles in society through painting. My paintings and activities in painting classes lighten someone's heart, give them the courage to look forward, and become a force for that person to support someone else. I would be happy if I could create "something" that would create such "peace".

Doubts at a nursing home and his own difficulties in life led him to the path of painting. Sublimating the confusion, he entrusts his thoughts to the tree and continues to express himself. In the painting class, we create an environment where children and people with disabilities can create with peace of mind, and expand the place where people can face themselves through painting. Expectations are high for her future activities as she aims to create a society where everyone can express themselves freely.

EXHIBITIONS Exhibition Information

2024.02.01 - 2024.02.15

Chie Miyahara Web Solo Exhibition
- Michishirube -
The solo exhibition "Michishirube" is about the importance of the choices and decisions we face in our daily lives and in life. The path I've taken so far
The scenery deep in the heart,
From the moment of birth, a person is heading towards death
The work of "Michishirube" was created with the aim of becoming a "Michishirube" to show the path we want to take in the future.
We would like to provide visitors with an opportunity to think about what direction they want to take and what choices they want to make.
What I couldn't do today, what I was struggling with
That's not a bad thing at all,
I can work hard because I can't do it. I can do my best.
You can explore because it is painful. I want to do it.
I can be kind because I know sadness.
Such hopes and light, the original scenery of the nostalgic heart in a distant memory, each of these will heal my sorrow and become a guide to the path I will walk in the future
That's what I think.
　
　
●Chie Miyahara｜Miyahara Chie 　
[Biography] In 1999 ・Graduated from Hijiyama University Junior College, Department of Fine Arts, Department of Western Painting ・Member of the Shinkyo Art Association ・Project to nurture painters "So, nurture" selected painters 【Solo Exhibition】 In 2014 ・"Yorimichiwaki Michimayomichi" Asunaro Baking Company Hiroshima In 2018 ・"Scenery of Memory" y'café Hiroshima ・"Root ~Sublimation of Thoughts~" Kure Shinkin Bank Gallery Hiroshima In 2019 ・"Scenery of Memories 2" y'café Hiroshima In 2020 ・"Scenery of Memories 3" y'café Hiroshima In 2021 ・"What you see, what you can't see, what you feel" Amo Delicacies Toto Gallery Hiroshima [Awards] In 1999 ・Selected for the "Kitakyushu Artists Federation Exhibition" In 2015 ・First selection for the "58th Shinkyo Art Exhibition" (~present) In 2017 ・"The 60th Commemorative New Exhibition" Mazda Prize Nomination ・Selected for the "Hiroshima Prefectural Art Exhibition" In 2020 ・"ZEROTEN 2020" Voting Results 9th place / 100 people In 2021 ・"ZEROTEN 2021" Voting Results 10th place / 100 people ・"The 64th Shinkyo Art Exhibition" Encouragement Award Member Nomination

2022.08.02 - 2022.08.28

Chie Miyahara Solo Exhibition Scenery of Memory 5
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